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[Beirus]

((Also, did the grenade or the remains of my slash catch any of the normal marines, or did the Powersuits somehow absorb the full attack? And what are our marines doing?))

[Blood_Librarian]

((The Slash was primarily aimed at the Marines, so they took the full brunt and suffered for it. The grenade presumably killed a couple normals, but the flash ahsnt cleared up yet. The three marines are in a couple states. The left most is currently attempting to get back on his feet, the center one is aiming his gun, and the rightmost one is currently falling to the floor.

For reference, a round in combat is about 3-6 seconds.))

[Slick]

"Maneuvering"

Thunderbolt hefts up his stalwart-though compromised shield, before assuming a position in between the enemy combatants and his squad.

Spoiler: Thunderbolt IV (click to show/hide)

 
Name:
Thunderbolt IV

Gender:
Male
 
Sub-Species:
BattleFrame
 
Unofficial Occupation:
Defender/Mobile Cover
 
Equipment Packs:
BattleFrame Universal
Shield Carrier

Appearance:

Note: Positronic Brain is housed within torso.

Backstory:
Built as a supporting element for boarding actions. Its programming puts priority on the survival of its squadmates.

Skills:
+3 Phazon Gun
+2 Close Quarters Combat
+1 Internal Repair
+1 Explosives

Abilities:
Redundant Systems:
-Overdrive: The redundant systems kick in, either giving a needed boost in strength, higher reflexes or a short burst of speed at the expense of immense heat which has to be vented out over the next 2-3 turns.
-Emergency Throttled: Come back from the dead if all critical systems (Brain, SMES battery, Interface) are still relatively functional.

Inventory:
Military grade frame
Type A Myomere Muscle Cables
Standard Electronics
SMES battery
Gamma level Positronic Brain
Phazon Pistol
2 Pistol Magazines
Alloy Shield
Snubnose Phazon Rifle
1 Phazon Rifle Chambers
2 Class 2 HE grenades

Condition:
Cool Down Complete
Alloy Shield Compromised
Covered in Brug Blood

(OOC: Apologizes for my absence. Edit: What is the poll for?)

[Lenglon]

Continue removing threats.
Have Raptor1 assist in removing lightly armored threats if spare processing power permits.

Spoiler: Vision 1 (click to show/hide)

Name: Vision 1
 
Sub-Species: Mapping platform
 
Unofficial Occupation: Wallhack Sniper
 
Equipment Packs: 1 Drone pack
 
Appearance: a large heavy metal crate with motorized magnetic spheres on the bottom that allow it to roll... slowly... on a smooth surface... in any direction. A Linear Rifle is mounted on a unarmored multi-point-connection servo-arm that can rise from the top-center of the crate and aim in any direction and has enough play to extend it beyond the edge of the crate to aim down below the rim of the box. The linear rifle can be removed and used normally by a Star Knight if necessary, but upon remounting the system will require a recalibration period before it will be ready to fire the weapon. There is a belt-feed going down along the servo-arm into the interior of the crate. The majority of the box contains tiny drone hangers, mostly top-mounted around the weapon. There is a small manufactory internal to the system that can build replacement drones if fed standard salvageable parts, and storage for some raw materials internal to the system for the same purpose. There is a touchscreen panel on the side of the crate that displays a 3d image of what has been mapped since its last activation and accepts commands. the crate itself is decently durable but weapons fire that enters the miniature drone bays could detonate the system's ammo reserves and/or destroy docked drones.
the drones are mostly small unarmed mapping quadcopters. there are 4 standard models with a belly-mounted manipulator arm and high-grade mapping equipment, 1 with a cyber interface instead of a grasper on the arm for remote hacking and 1 with a belly mounted Phazon pistol.
 
Backstory: This is a recent military modification of a drone mapping system. the primary premise of the system is the drones serve as eyes for an incursion team. the main box's linear rifle, however, is the center of the system. the drones are constantly sending back mapping data including the locations of threats, and the linear rifle acquires and neutralizes those threats no matter what is in the way. Although it performed well in controlled test environments, it has yet to be field-tested. It is advertised as a way for the Star Knights to never have to walk into an ambush again. The truth of this advertisement has yet to be seen.
 
Skills:
+3 Linear rifle
+1 phazon rifle/pistol
+1 cyberwarfare
+2 internal repair

Abilities:
 Dronesight - can accurately aim the Linear rifle through walls to fire upon whatever the remote drones can see.

Inventory:
1 Linear Rifle
1 Belt-feed of Linear rifle ammunition (50 shots, can break links to allow handheld use, but will only have 5 shots, the rest left on the belt)
1 positronic brain
1 SMES battery
1 standard electronics
1 military grade frame
1 Drone fabricator
2 drone transponder arrays (second is redundant in case of equipment failure)
6 Drone bays.
3 Phazon pistol magazines
4 Eye model drones
1 Glimpse model drone
1 Raptor model drone
Unspecified Armory Loot

Condition / Drone Status:
Vision 1: MINOR DAMAGE - SENSOR BULB SHATTERED

Eye 1: Good - DEPLOYED - positioned to view area near elevator
Eye 2: Good - DEPLOYED - viewing area beyond elevator, actively evading fire.
Eye 3: Good - DEPLOYED - landed on elevator
Eye 4: Good - UNDEPLOYED

Glimpse 1: Good - UNDEPLOYED

Raptor 1: Good - DEPLOYED - Landed on elevator.

[Beirus]

If straight brute force with dark matter can't take out the suits, I have another idea that involves brute force and dark matter. Smash the power suit marines into the ceiling with dark matter from below them, and use Follow Up to shoot their grenades to make them detonate on their belts. Or just to shoot them in weakened sections of the armor. If the others have already dealt with them, use my Phazon rifles to eliminate as many of the normal as possible and use Follow Up to make a forward moving wall of dark matter to block their return fire if necessary and smash them, or to smash any new hostile that show up. If a follow up isn't necessary, use my secondary action to preemptively recover from the coming psionic stress.

Spoiler: Guwat (click to show/hide)

Name: Guwat Torif-Purk
 
Gender Male
 
Sub-Species: Psionic
 
Unofficial Occupation: Unseen Hand
 
Equipment Packs:  Universal Psionic Pack

Ranger Pack
 
Appearance: He stands at 6'0", with lean muscles and broad shoulders. His eyes are black orbs. His face has thin, fleshy tendrils in the shape of a beard and mustache of a darker purple than his skin. He has no augmentation beyond those he is required to have, and his skin is a dark purple color color.
 
Backstory: Guwat lost his parents at an early age and grew up in an orphanage until the age of ten. He was adopted at the age of ten by a someone who took an interest in his psionic abilities. He was raised along with four other psionic children, but he rarely talks about them or the person who raised him. When his caretaker died a short while after he turned 18, due to mysterious circumstances, he underwent the Augmentation process to further enhance his psionic gift.
 
Skills:
+3 Psionic Amplification
+2 Psionic Endurance
+2 Phazon Gun
+1 Salvaging
+1 Close Combat
+1 Fletchette Gun
 
Abilities:
Psionic Dark Matter Manipulation: The ability to manipulate dark matter using his mind. The ability will grow in strength as he does, allowing a larger variety of uses and applications.

In the Zone: His focus is very difficult to disrupt due to pain, loud noises, bright lights, or other stimuli, within reason. This is an active ability than lasts between 3 and 6 turns and requires an action similar to "taking a breath" to refocus his mind after the active duration, leaving him less effective at doing things for that turn.

Follow-up: He can shift from using his weapons to using his psionic powers and vice-versa. Essentially allows him to use his secondary action for another attack or action, using either his psionic powers if he made a weapon attack or his weapon if he made a psionic attack, so long as he spends his tertiary action to focus on the secondary attack. This means that he cannot use a move secondary action or cover tertiary action when making a second attack.

 
Inventory:
SK Hardsuit
Oxygenation Pack
Operator Medical System
Distress Pulser
Psionic Augment Base
Combat Knife
Phazon Pistol
2 Phazon Pistol Magazines
Survival Kit
2 Snubnose Phazon Rifle Ranger Variant
3 Phazon Rifle Chambers
2 Class 1 Fragmentation Grenades
Fusion Cutting Torch
Adv. Bolt gun
4 Adv. Boltgun Magazines
 
Condition:Healthy

[Blood_Librarian]

Mission 001: Operation Pandora's Box
Post 011: A gory end to a hero.

Turgle'Purk pulls a grenade off his belt, pulls the pin and chucks it as far as he could, bouncing off a wall with a twak sound.

2

An ominous twak sound is heard away from the vision of the elevator, and the grenade comes into view for some of the elevator inhabitants.
Purk moves to close the elevator but is interrupted by the rest of the squad firing out of the elevator.

Thunderbolt lifts his shield into position, conveniently on the side where Purk threw his special cylinder of shrapnel.

1!

The grenade detonates, and Thunderbolt loses control of its shield bearing arm, Damage control systems kick in, but they do not have time to do anything significant besides pinpoint the damage to the shard of metal that locked into a power control system in the elbow joint. It will need to be removed.

Thunderbolt was knocked back by the kinetic force of the grenade, and could not push his rifle to bear.
[add  disabled shield bearing arm to conditions.]

the Left most Unitarian marine

2-1=1

Keels back over, its blue ichor leaking from its gorget. the gurgly sounds it makes fill you with pride in the fact that it will die.

 Vision 1s heat sinks engage as the linear rifle accelerates a slug towards the centermost marine.

2!

Misses the centermost marine by the skin of its armor, but nails a regular soldier behind it, leaving a fist-sized hole in its chest.  Of the original amount of marines behind the soldiers, only thirteen remains.

3

Three soldiers are hit by bursts of plasma and are either crippled, maimed, or dead from the extreme heat exposure.

Guwat decides that the only thing to do is to rip them apart, as always.

8 3!

The room, the hallway, and the walls drop several degrees temperature wise as the Dark matter is swept up, slamming upwards and backward at the three, poor marines, along with Guwat. In an uncontrolled manner, all three are launched towards the back wall at a horrific speed.  The three Marines slam against the ceiling, and with a wet thud, all three of them break apart like watermelons that had been hit with a sledgehammer, raining gore and metal below.

Guwat merely slams at the elevator doorway and crumples to the floor like a set of broken teaware in a sack instead of embedding into the ceiling and exploding like the Marines.
[add fractured left leg, fractured right arm, fractured rib, ruptured lung, temporary stun to conditions.]

Guwat promptly screams, as the psionic withdrawal of energy finally kicks in, but oddly weaker than the worst case scenario it rightfully should have been.
[ add major Psionic exhaustion, estimated 4-5 turns until complete  recovery, it is highly recommended you do not use psionics at all during this period.]

 If one were to look down the right hallway, they would notice a full squadron of Unitarian Soldiers pulls back into a full rout.


Frunk

6

4+2(skill)

Lets out a burst of Phazon rounds at the soldiers, noting the clear fire lanes from the fact that the Unitarian Space Marines are now in the way in the form of rain rather than as walls.

Only five Soldiers remain in front of the elevator, the rest are either running to the right or are of unknown status to the left.

The Bridge is to the left, there is likely still personnel in the hallway.

Spoiler: GMs note (click to show/hide)

The die plays tricks.

[crazyabe]

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Ognip'pish turgle-purk
 
Gender: male
 
Sub-Species: Augmented
 
Unofficial Occupation: Build Buster
 
Equipment Packs: Cyber Warfare Specialist, Universal Augmented Pack:
 
Appearance:He is heavily scarred. His suit is painted dark red. his Prosthetic Legs put his height at 7'8.

Backstory: Born a runt, and always trying to prove himself the better then he looked, he stopped growing at 4'2, He enlisted because he couldn't find any jobs where people would take him seriously, despite him holding a degree in Battleframe repair and construction... Had his legs both taken off when someone tossed a 'nade at his squad, killing everyone else off. he was lucky he didn't loose anything else... he Personally requested extra long legs hoping he'd finally be taken seriously when he got in the program.
 
Skills:
Robotics (3)
Salvaging - Structural Engineering (2)
CyberWarfare - Close Quarters Combat - Explosives (1)
Abilities:
Mechanic: if it's a machine, he can probably make it work.
Improviser: if he doesn't have quite the right tools for something he can always use something similar as a replacement.
Inventory:

SK Hardsuit
Oxygenation Pack:
Operator Medical System
Distress Pulser
Augment Base
Combat Knife
Phazon Pistol
2 Phazon Pistol Magazines
Survival Kit

Phazon Rifle
3 Phazon Rifle Chambers
Tool kit
1 Class 1 Fragmentation Grenades
AlienJack
3 half disassembled Gyrojet guns
Anom. Loading Elevator Software
Condition:
Prosthetic legs
Suit Breached

Do Some Field Repair work on Thunderbolt.

[Beirus]

((So I got a 5+3 on my Psionic amp roll and have In The Zone Active, heightening my focus to a point that would, paraphrasing you when I was working on the skill, make me unstoppable for a few turns, right? Why and how am I hitting myself with my own psionic attack, especially when I was already behind Thunderbolt last turn? I can understand the severe psionic exhaustion, but I don't remember reading anywhere that Psionic Endurance would affect control, just that it affects the mental strain from psionics. And shouldn't a base 5 roll be a total success, not an overshoot? Not trying to whine, just trying to get some clarification on how that happened.))

[Blood_Librarian]

((When I think of In the Zone, I believed it to be that "No matter what I do, it was done. No ifs, and's or butts and damn the consequences." If you did not have In the Zone active, your psionic attack would've been interrupted by the grenade going off.)) Granted, I might have gone overboard with the wounds, but since your hard suit will keep you going it's mostly gonna be a -1 or a -2 to related rolls, Since those wounds are really nothing once they are stabilized by another person. The Limb Fractures are automatically set by the hard suit, the rib fracture gets clamped down, and ruptured Lungs are totally different in effect to Yaerians since they have their lungs full of fluid instead of air, kinda like a fish tank with those bubbler things.
The fluid will exchange with the blood in the body and it will lead to problems if you don't get some serious medical attention in say, an hour or three, but as of now, it's just really extensive pain which will be gone once you get hit with some heavy painkillers.

As for the Amp Roll, I had no other option besides giving you a seizure and perhaps some really bad brain damage because you failed both this roll and had psionic shock which would've happened this turn, so I played it like a sudden discharge of uncontrollable power, rather than the mental equivalent of getting beaten to death with lead pipes.))

[Beirus]

((Works for me. Hadn't realized that the psionic shock was just delayed by a turn, had originally thought it would hit me at the end of In The Zone. This way is better, though, since the Psionic Shock, Severe Psionic Exhaustion, and whatever I would have gotten from presumably using psionics next turn would have probably resulted in a coma or instadeath. Thanks for answering so promptly. I'll submit an action tomorrow, either before or after work. Although it'll probably just be "Try to ease the psionic strain and let my suit patch me up."))

[Blood_Librarian]

((You have the option of "Stabbing yourself with a needle", or "Pulling your pistol out and perhaps becoming a all star pistol hero" or perhaps even "mutter quietly about burns Phazon burns being better then this" as your action, but I appreciate creativity so if you figure something out on your own don't be afraid to hit me with it.

Also, think of Psionic exhaustion as severe migraines, except they go away after twenty seconds if you're a good PSY Agent with ample "reserves". As far as I know, there really isn't a way to "push" migraines away, and that's the sort of baseline I'm trying to go for with Psionic Stress.))

[Coolrune206]

Frunk stops being lazy long enough to update his sheet! It's super effective!

Spoiler: Frunk (click to show/hide)

Name: Frunk
 
Gender: Male
 
Sub-Species: Augmented
 
Unofficial Occupation: Fixer and Breaker
 
Equipment Packs: Universal Augmented Pack, Combat Engineer
 
Appearance: Frunk's armor is painted navy blue, with a few black accents. He stands around 6'1", and has no extra prosthetics besides his original augmentations. Below the suit, his skin color is as light shade of yellow.
 
Backstory: Frunk doesn't talk about his backstory much, but from what he has revealed, he was a child laborer, and intensely resented everyone around him. He's since become quite a bit more mellow, but still displays natural suspicion of those around him.
 
Skills:
Plasmatic Weapons + 3
Piloting + 2
Cyber Warfare + 2
Medical + 1
Robotics + 1
Explosives + 1

Abilities:
Light Sleeper - Frunk can fall asleep pretty much anywhere. It's quite useful for extended missions. He also tends to wake easily, making it hard to ambush him.
Stealth - Frunk tends to keep things as quiet as possible, and it can be seen in the way he moves. He's hard to detect if he doesn't want to be detected.
 
Inventory:
SK Hardsuit
Oxygenation Pack:
Operator Medical System
Distress Pulser
Augment Base
Combat Knife
Phazon Pistol
2 Phazon Pistol Magazines
Survival Kit
Plasmatic Thrower (73% tank)
2 Plasmatic Fuel Tanks
Tool kit
Fusion Cutting Torch
Fusion Torch replacement tank
1 Class 1 Fragmentation Grenades
2 Class 2 High Explosive Grenades
Xenolinguistics Adept(Unitarian)

Condition:
Healthy

Frunk moves out of the elevator and does a quick sweep of the immediate area outside to make sure that there are no immediate threats outside the elevator. If there are, he shoots them. If not, he takes cover by the corner to the left and peeks out.

[Blood_Librarian]

You lost one fragmentation grenade after that mysterious explosion outside the elevator, modify your sheet.

[Coolrune206]

You lost one fragmentation grenade after that mysterious explosion outside the elevator, modify your sheet.

What class grenade?

[Blood_Librarian]

Class denotes its general lethality, I said Fragmentation, which is the Class one. You did not have a Class two Fragmentation explosive.